Ann Marks spent thirty years as a senior executive in large corporations and served as chief marketing officer of Dow Jones/The Wall Street Journal. After retirement, she put her research and analysis…
Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist. He has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad. According to the literary theorist Kornelije Kvas, "in Flaubert, rea…
Julian Patrick Barnes is an English writer. He won the Man Booker Prize in 2011 with The Sense of an Ending, having been shortlisted three times previously with Flaubert's Parrot, England, England, an…
Peter Biskind is an American cultural critic, film historian, and journalist, best known for his tenure as executive editor of Premiere magazine from 1986 to 1996. He attended Swarthmore College and a…
Susan Sontag was born in New York City on January 16, 1933, grew up in Tucson, Arizona, and attended high school in Los Angeles. She received her B.A. from the College of the University of Chicago and…
David Keith Lynch was an American filmmaker, visual artist, musician, and actor. He received acclaim for his films, which are often distinguished by their surrealist, dreamlike qualities. In a career …
I'm the product of a happy and uneventful childhood in the suburbs of Cleveland, followed by a happy and pretty eventful four years as a student at University of Michigan. From there, I wandered to th…
The author of some twenty works of fiction and memoir, Annie Ernaux is considered by many to be France’s most important writer. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She has also won…
Anna-Lou "Annie" Leibovitz is an American portrait photographer whose style is marked by a close collaboration between the photographer and the subject.
Philippe Sands an Anglo-French lawyer and writer. He is Professor of Law at University College London and a practicing barrister at Matrix Chambers. He has been involved in many important cases, inclu…
Bryan F. Peterson has been a full-time commercial photographer since 1981, shooting assignments all over the world for many of the Fortune 500 companies, including Kodak, UPS, and American Expiress. H…
Brigitte Giraud, née en 1960 à Sidi Bel Abbès en Algérie française, est une écrivaine française, auteure de romans et de nouvelles. Brigitte Giraud grandit à Rillieux-la-Pape avant de s’installer à Ly…
Samina’s debut novel, Madras on Rainy Days, was the winner of France’s prestigious Prix Premier Roman Étranger Award and a finalist for both the PEN/Hemingway Award in Fiction and the California Book …
Emmanuel Carrère is a French author, screenwriter, and director. He is the son of Louis Carrère d'Encausse and French historian Hélène Carrère d'Encausse.
Jack El-Hai is a widely-published journalist who covers history, medicine, and science, and the author of the acclaimed book The Lobotomist. He is the winner of the June Roth Memorial Award for Medica…
Levé was self-taught as an artist and studied business at the elite École supérieure des sciences économiques et commerciales. He began painting in 1991. Levé made abstract paintings but abandoned the…
David Machado nasceu em Lisboa em 1978. É autor do romance O Fabuloso Teatro do Gigante e do livro de contos Histórias Possíveis. Em 2005, o seu conto infantil A Noite dos Animais Inventados recebeu o…
Popularny pisarz młodego pokolenia. Pochodzi z Nidzicy, ukończył studia dziennikarskie na UJ. Współpracownik pism „Lampa” i „Machina”, twórca rubryki „Tydzień kultury polskiej” w tygodniku „Wprost”. A…
Vivian Dorothea Maier (February 1, 1926 – April 21, 2009) was an American street photographer, who was born in New York City and spent much of her childhood in France.[1] After returning to the United…
Joanna Kuciel-Frydryszak – dziennikarka, absolwentka polonistyki na Uniwersytecie Wrocławskim. Autorka biografii Słonimski. Heretyk na ambonie (Wydawnictwo W.A.B. 2012), nominowanej w najważniejszych …
Pamela Bannos is an artist and researcher who utilizes methods that highlight the forgotten and overlooked, exploring the links between visual representation, urban space, history, and collective memo…
Żyje z pisania odkąd odkrył konfucjańską zasadę, że jeśli wybierzesz zajęcie, które kochasz, nie będziesz musiał pracować ani jednego dnia. Imał się wielu zajęć. Czyścił zęzy na statkach, malował komi…
